Electric Box 2: Eclectic Boogaloo

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You look like you’re working too hard. Or at least not distracted enough. Open Electric Box 2 by Twinkle Star Games in a tab and see what you can get done after that. It’s a browser-based The Incredible Machine-alike, in which you place a constantly growing pool of icons onto a grid to create a circuit. It starts off very simply, but quickly starts adding in lasers, push bots, canons, heli bots, drill machines… It’s very satisfying to complete each puzzle. Especially when they involve kettles. Cheers to Sam for yet another excellent tip.

I played trough it, an be warned: There are some very non-intuitive ways you can use things, that the tutorial totally misses out.
Like that when you move a sender or receiver after connecting, it will stay connected, even when outside of the original maximum radius.
Or that you can still flip objects, even when the power is on.
And that light goes trough everything, including all non-transparent things like the bots.

It wasn’t fun for me, because I found it way too hard. In a very frustrating way. If I want to be frustrated, I go do some sisyphean undertaking, like placing 100 needles perfectly parallel to each other on a slippery table where every vibration of the table disarranges at least half of them, and each touching of said table is likely to cause such a vibration.

Pretty darn enjoyable – thanks for the link! I definitely was working too hard before you posted this. Thank god you reminded me that work hours are for being distracted by brilliant browser games…not doing work.

What are you on about? There’s one and half levels of tutorial, and a few (very) occasional hints in the next few levels when a new concept comes into play. The whole rest of the game is letting you play around with things.